In its landmark decision some 30 years ago establishing student rights in public schools, the Supreme Court stated, "constitutional rights do not stop at the schoolhouse gate."

The court should use this case to reaffirm Tinker's famous pronouncement that students do not shed their right to free speech "at the schoolhouse gate."

This is considered the benchmark case in issues of student free speech and contains the famous phrase "students do not shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate."

Recognition of Rights Students in the public schools do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."

According to the 1969 Tinker case, "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their Constitutional right to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."

Today, Justice White reaffirmed the Tinker decision's statement that students in public schools do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of expression at the schoolhouse gate."

IN 1969, the Supreme Court ruled that students "do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."

As word of his ouster became public yesterday, virtually no one - from parents at the schoolhouse gate to union leaders to academics and educators - publicly begged him to stay.

The court observed, "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."

Students, the court noted, do not "shed their constitutional rights to free speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."